The World is My Oyster

I know only one Swedish and I’m guessing not many people in Asia or Australia know even one person. So unless you’ve been there before, the things you know about Sweden is probably the fact that it’s located in Europe and they eat the kind of food you found at Ikea.

Hence this conversation occurred when our Swedish friend were about to go back to his country for holiday:

RC (Random Colleague) no.1: So you can’t wait to go back hey? Do you miss all those Swedish food?

Swedish-man: Yup yup. Can’t wait. Will spend 2 weeks over there in Summer time. Really miss the food.

Me: Yea you can eat meatballs every day (thinking about Ikea meatballs)

RC no.2: Oh but you don’t eat meat! (he eats fish though)

Me: O yea! Oh that’s too bad..

RC no.3: So what are you gonna eat?

Me: You can eat the pickled herrings.

RC no.4: And fish paste.

RC no.5: Oh you should bring some fish paste back to Singapore for us.

Swedish-man: Yes.. Absolutely..

Somehow I have a feeling that in our mind Sweden is just the giant version of Ikea. Like land of meatballs and herrings, probably with a touch of pretty furnitures.

On a side note, I totally love Ikea meatballs. I sometimes just go there to eat at their cafeteria and nothing else. Have to post the food sometimes :)